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From: jgh@aaec.OZ (John G. Haub)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: RE: Bug copying files with Mac Plus
Message-ID: <646@aaec.OZ>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 00:29:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 00:29:03 1986
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Organization: Australian Atomic Energy Commission
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In InfoMac Digest vol 4: issue72,
Richard Kalagher writes,

>I have a consistent problem when copying files from a 400K disk to and 800K
>disk on a single drive Mac Plus.  The problem occurs when trying to
>copy all the files at once from a disk containing 50-80 files in several
>different folders.  I get a message for 2 or 3 of the files saying
>"couldn't write file 'foobar'".  If I copy the files in smaller
>chunks, everything is OK or if I go back and copy the files that couldn't
>be written, it works OK.  Does anyone know what the "couldn't write" alert
>means?  In addition, when the alert comes up you have the choice of
>"continue" or "cancel".  The one time I clicked "cancel", the machine hung
>up and I had to reboot.  The above occurrs with System 3.1.1 and Finder 5.2.

I too have a single drive Mac+ but am using System 3.1 and I had the same
problem when backing up my TML Pascal System Library. I was only copying
approx 20-30 files though.I tried several times and found that it wasn't
always the same set of files that it refused to copy.
Whats the caper ??

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